Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 3, 1913, Page 1

"VOL. LV.—NO. 158 NORWICH;s CONN., ~ MORE BLOODSHED AT (GETTYSBURG Seven Men Stabbed, Three Seriously, in a Fight in the Dining Room of a Hotel ABUSE OF LINCOLN RESENTED BY A VETERAN Threw a Bottle at the Detractors of Martyred President—Fight | Precipitated and Men Who Rallied to Old Soldier’s As- sistance Wounded—Orne Storm Fails to Have Any Gettysburg, Pa, July 2—Seven men were stabbed tonight in a fight in the dining room of the Gettysburg hofel sult of a fight which started ‘eral men aroused the anger f old veteran .in blue by abusing Lincoin. Several of the wounded men are in a serious condition at the Penn- sylvania state hospital. The state constabulary are making desperate ef- to find the men who did the List of Wounded. he wounded men are: Edward J. Carroll, sergeant of the quartermaste S. A.: David Farbor of Bu member of the state con- John D. Maugin, Harris- Malcolm Griffin, Bedford City, Charles Susler, West Fairview, Gettysburg, burg,; Pa PPa.: Hayder Renisbecker, and Harry A. Root, Jr., Harrisburg. bor, Maugin and Griffin are in the il serious condition. Their wounds were in the left breast and the sur- geo; at the Pennsylvania State hos- pital would not venture predictions as to their chance of recovery. Old Veteran Defended Lincoln. \ceording to all the information the authorit could gather the fight ted suddenly and was over in a few minutes. It began shortly before seven o'clock, when the dining room was full of people and caused a panic among the scores of guests. The old veteran, who was unhurt, disappeared in the melee, was sitting near Far- bor and Carroll, when he heard the lighting remarks about Lincoin. He jumped to his feet and began to de- fend the martyred president and be- rated his detractors. Fart Victimg Defended Veteran. The men who were stabbed, acecord- ing to the information the surgeouns gathered, jumped to the defense of the eteran when the others closed in. Knives were out in a second and the room was in an uproar. Women fled r the doors and crowded to the win- dows ready to jump to the street be- low It was all over before the rest of the men in the room could get their breaths and the man responsible for it 111 had got out and away. The fight epurred the medical men again to- night 1o an effort to have the Gettys- burg saloons closeq during the re- mainder of the celebration. One Arrest Made. The constabulary iater arrested a man who gave the name of W. B, Henry ang said his home was in Phil. adclphia, as one of the mem con- cerned in the affray. They belleve that more than onme man was respon- sibie. Son of Confedsrate General. The man whom the police charge with doing the stabbing gave his name a . Henry, Philadelpiiia. He claims to be a son of R. R. Henry of Tazewell, Va. a general in the con- faderate army. = Henry, with one or two companions, was seated at a table, and there was a general talk about the war which eoon developed ugly feeling. Finally, aecording to eye witnesses, Henry ap- plied a vile epithet to Abraham ILin- coln. Union Veteran Threw Bottle. Tt was resented hotly by a union vet- eran, who seized a glass or bottle and threw it at Henry. Immediately there was an uproar and Henry, according to the version the constabulary gives, jumped to his feet, drew a knife and began slashing at those nearest to him. Tables were upset, glasses, bot- tles and other missiles flew through the mir. One eye witness said Henry chased him around the room, first stabbing him fn the arm, them stab- bing him in the back. Henry s described as a big, hand- some, weil dressed man of about 32. After a fierce fight Henry was sub- dned. Henry Denies the Stabbing. H. X. Bakez of Pennsylvania is said to be the unibn veteran who took of- fenge at the remarks about ILincol €. A. dGoldthwaite of Salem, Ma seized the knife and turned it over to the police. Henry was locked up in the county &her?. He denied that he had stab- anyone and said that he was in the fight only to aid Grifith, one of the wounded men. Thunder Storm Clears Air. A roaring storm swept down out of the Blue Ridge over the platean of Gettysburg today bringing needed re- lisf to thousands of veterans in blue and gray who have sweltered for four daye in an atmeosphere that would do credit to a fireless cooker but is dangerous in a city of fifty thousand old and weary men. For more than a half hour the rain came pouring down upon the sun-cracked and wind-swept encampment ground. It charged with violent thundering over the ground that Pickett covered in '63. 1ts sal- vos of thunder were like the booming gwns of Meade and Lee but the ther- mometer dropped with wonderful agiltty and the lightning cleared the air of its burden of humidity. Not a Tent Biown Down. In the vanguard of the storm was a wind that oddied the dust clouds, blinded the veterans and made the thoughtful scurry for their tents to lash them down. "They showed they had not forgotten the old days, for not a tent was blown over, so far as reports showed tonight and not a vet- eran was Infured. At the big tent where the formal exercises were held the army of workmen hurried in the face of the storm to put up its sides and prepare for the unusual, For days they have watched for the coming of & blg wind and men have been stationad to tie it tight if the wind rose above a gentle breeze, Predic-~ tions bave been many that a sudden gust would lift the canvass and the poles high into the alr and spread des. truction in Its path, Military Day at Big Tent, Tonight the veterans were really able to enjoy themssives for the first time sinece their arrival although the ground was slippery, the roads half an inch deep in mud and the grass wae wet and uncomfertable, This was military day at the big tent but com- zratively few, veterans appeared fo Len (o the spaschmaking and (o hear the bands play "Turkey in the Straw,” i ‘Cclonvl Cowan turned to the navy and | Arrest Made—Heavy Thunder ! Bad Effect on Tents. “Old Black Joe,” and other well known military airs. * Advocated Battleship Building. Colonel Andrew Cowan of Louis- ville, Ky., acted as presiding officer.of the day. Colonel Cowan was an of- ficer in an Union battery which play- ed a part in the Gettysburg campaign. He brought the veterans to their feet when he began to praise Major Nor- moyle, Captain Dalton and the other officers of the regular army who con- duct the big camp. They have earned enduring fame and we thank them from the bottom of our hearts, he said. ation. “We ought hips for every one aid, and the the Japanese sit to huild two battl laid down b3 pan,” he veterans cheered again and again. “The people on the seacoast cities ought not to be left without protection. ‘We ought to be prepared to demand pea = Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Read. Other speakers of the day were Ma- jor General John R. Brooke, of Penn- sylvania; Sergeant John b Scar- boroug of vorth Carolina and Lieutenant Governor Burchard of | Rhode Island, representing the armies | of the north and the south. Barry | Buckley of Washington read Lincoln’s l(‘x(*t!ysl)\lr‘g addre Governor Bur- chard made a decided hit with the vet- erans. One of the most remarkable figures In camp today was that of Gen- eral Funkbauses of Virginia, who is| 76 years old but was vigorous enough in the hot sun to hunt up the head- quarters tent; of Brigadier General Liggett and/pay his respects The gray haired " Confederate general who fought all through the war delighted the general of the newer army and his subordinate officers with his stories, Confederate General’s Story, “At the battle of Fort Stedmean,” he said, “my regiment, for I was a colonel | then, charged the fort in the heart of Drake’s lines and captured it. 1 saw we could not hold the position, and I told my men they could do what they , pleased. Many of us started back. Just as we got a little way from the fort in a sunny court an officer ran up to me, ‘Surrender,’ he yelled. . “I thought he was a rebel, too, and 1 said: “What are you talking about? Im | a confederate’ ‘Surrender, he yelled again, ‘I'm a union officer and want | j your sword.” . Just then one of my boys | j came running up. He had his bayonet | in his rifle, and I turned to him. ‘Jab | your bayenet into this damned Yankee | if he don’t surrender,’ I said. He jab- bed it against the Yankee's side and he passed his sword over. Grant's Men Recapture Fort. ! “T didn’t keep him prisoner vergy| long, though,” continued the general. | | “About three minutes later Grant's | | men came along and took the fort back | |and he was released, and I was a { prisoner with all the rest of the men who had stormed it” Here is another story that wandered { into camp tod and although - the| names are missing, from the way the | old veterans are showing their will- | ngness to forget, it seems entirely be- Hevable: Literal Burying of Hatchet. Two veterans, one in blue and the other in gray, met.downtown in Get- tysburg. They literally feil in one an- other’s arms and after a tour of the | {town they hit upon a great scheme. | They walked hand in hand through the &treots to a hardware store, bought a hatchet and tramped a mile and a half | to the battlefleld. They hunted up the | Bloody Angle where Pickeit's charge | reached its crest, dug a hole in the| ground there, and with tears and more | | embraces buried the hatchet. Many Veterans Lose Tickets. | Thousands of veterans left the camp | and Gettysburg today for their homes, | and thousands more probably will leave tomorrow. So many c s have been reported of | veterans losing their return railroad | tickets, and the consequent distress be-' cause of the inability to purchase | . | transportation, that Gowvernor Tener | today notified General TLiggett, the | Tnited States army officer in charge of | the camp, that the state of Pennsy!v: | mia will pay the return fare of all vet- {erans who have lost their tickets, no | {matter in what part of the United | States they reside. Will Charge and Shake Hands. One of the picturesque events of the celebration is scheduled for tomorrow at the Bloody Angle, when the Phila- delphia brizade of the union army and | survivors of Pickett’s division will | |form on opposite sides of the stane jwall where the charze stopped. They | will charge as best they can with their | burden of y but when they reach the wall they will stop and shake hands. On this spot they expect to pick out a location for a $250,000 monu- ment which they hope to have congress erect there. BATHHOUSES IN LAWRENCE ARE ORDERED CLOSED Accident on Monday Causes City Gov. ernment to Take Action. Lawrence, Mass.,, July 2.—The three city bathhouses in the Merrimac river, the collapse of a runway to ome of which on Monday afternoon resuited in the drowning of 11 boys, were or- dered closed today by the city gov- ernment, which met in special session and the officials of the public property department were instructed not to opsn them again until all have been thoroughly repaired and inspected. { The action was taken following the announcement by John O. Battershill, superintendent of the public property department, under Alderman Alfred Bradbury, diréctor of the department | of parks and public buildings that he | had condemned the bathhouses hecause of the waterlogged condition of the woodwork of the tanks, Over 200 Overcome by Heat. w York, July 2-—Five deaths and over fifty heat prostrations were offi- clally reeorded in and near Greafer | New York today, In pddition, every hespital here treated emergency pa- tients whose eases were not reported to ithe pelies, It ix estimated that the fo- tal of these overcome' numbered more than 200. l { high | ment work | the intense heat, Cabied Paragraphs . Pension to Lady Clarke. ~ London, July 2.—Among the ecivil list pensions granted today by the British government is one of $300 a year to Lady Purdon Clarke, widow of the late Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Earthquake Alarms Mes: a. Messina, Sicily, July 2—A slight earthquake shock lasting only a few seconds caused considerable alarm here today and this was increased by distinct underground rumblings. Many of the inhabitants left their residences and took to the open fields. Honor to James Wilson. London, July 2.—The Royal Agri- cuwltural society of England today awarded its honorary diploma of mem- bership to James Wilson, who was sec- retary of agriculture under the Me- Kinley, Roosevelt and Taft adminis- trations, for his services to agricul- ture, $250,000 for Stage Fairy. London, July 2.—Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and all the costs of the suit is the price the Marquis of Northampton has agreed to pay to settle the suit for breach of promise brought against him by Miss Daisy Markham, the actress. The costs will amount to a considerable sum. WEDDING AT WHITE HOUSE IN NOVEMBER Engagement of Miss Jessie Wilson to Francis B. Sayre Announced. Washington, July 2.—The president and Mrs. Wilson announced tonight the engagement of their second daughter, Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, to Fran- cis Bowes Sayre, ‘of Lancaster, Pa. The wedding is expected to take place next November at the White House. Mr. Sayre is at present an attorney in the office of District Attorney Whit- man of New York. While cloge friends of both familles have known of the engagement for some time, announce- ment was withheld until today. the first anniversary of Mr. Wilson's nom- ination at the Baltimore convention. ‘White House officials accompanied the brief announcement with a bio- graphy of Mr. Sayre. He is 28 years old and after preparing at Hill school at Pottstown, Pa., and Lawrenceville, N. J., graduated from Willlarhs college in 1909. He waAs manager of the foot- ball team there, valedictorian of his ck and Interested in Y. M. C. A. work. He spent two summers with Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell in his mis- sionary work on the coast of Labrador and studied law at Harvard Law school where he graduated last year. “cum laude.”” He has traveled exten- vely during his vacations, spending last summer in Alaska and nerthern Siberia. Mr. Sayre comes from a collegiate family. His father was the late Robert Heysham Sayre, for a long time pres- ident of the board of trustees of Le- university and builder of ‘fthe Lehigh Valley railroad. Hig mother was Martha Finley Nevin, a daughter of John Williamson Nevin. theologian, and president of Franklin and Marshall collegs, at Lancaster, Pa, She is de- seended from Hugh Williamson ~of North Carolina, one of the framers of the constitution, She is a sister of Robert J. Nevin, head of the American Church of Rome, Italy, and a first cousin of WEthelbert Nevin, the com- poser. Miss Wilson fs 24 years old and was educated at Goucher college, Balti- more, and specialized in political science. She has done much settle- in Philadelphia and has been actively identified with the Y. W. C. A. having recently made many speeches in its behalf. While Mr. Sayre is not known to Washingtonians, he has made several quiet visits to the White House in re. cent monthg and was a frequent V! itor at the Wilson home, at Princeton, N. J. The announcement was Te- ceived with keen interest in sccial circles of the national capital as the wedding starts the winter season with an impprtant social functiom: Not since Miss Alice Roosevelt and former Rep- Tes: ative Longworth of Ohio were married, has there been a wedding at the White House and many vears prior to that occurred the wedding of the Clevelands SULZER DISCUSSES 2 SUIT AGAINST HIM Says It Is Part of Plot of His Polit- ical Enemies. tysburg, Pa. July 2.—Governor William Sulzer of New York, who came here today to attend the semi-centen- nial célebration of the battle of Gettys- burg, gave out a statement this after- noon regarding the breach of prom- ise suit begun against him yesterday in Philadelphia by Miss Mignon Hop- kin a cloak model. The governor declared he did not fear the outcome of the suit, which, he said, “looks like a poor conspiracy and seems to be stale and fishy.” The governor characterized the suit s blackmail instigated by his politica¥ enemies, and added that it is “a part of the plot of Boss Murphy and his political conspirators to disoredit me because they cannot use ms for the nefarious schemes to loot the state of New York.” “Mr. Murphy and his hirelings.” Gov- ernor Sulzer said. ave been threat- ening me ever since I became governer because I would not be a tool and ProxXy governor. “I defied them all to do their worst. Their efforts to injure me with hon- est people will bé abortive. T shall go forward without fear, come what may. I never did a thing in my life of which T am ashamed. “Suffice it to say;” said the governor in conclusion, “that I knew this Hop- kins woman years ago. I was a friend of her family in their distress, but I deny emphatically that I ever agreed to marry her; that T ever wronged her; that I ever lived with her/ or that I ever held her out to be my wife.” Governor Sulzer’s tinues: “Miss Hopkins sueq me in New York for breach of promise some time af- ter T married, about six vears ago. She could not sustain her charges and admitted she brought the suit for ul- terlor purposes. That case was set- tled and my lawyer has a general re- lease from this woman to me. My reason for settling then was on ac- count of the precarious condition of Mrs. Sulzer. statement con- CIVIL WAR VETERAN OVERCOME BY HEAT. Stricken at New Haven Depof—One Death In New Haven Hospital. New Haven, Conn, July 2-—One deuth and meveral prostrations were recorded here today aw the result of Thomas Quinn, aged 60, died late in the afiernoon at a local hespital where he was taken arter be- ing piricken dewn in hls heme in Pertsea street, Henry Hateh, sald to be from Dayten, Me., was breught to a hospital frem the union depot suffe ing from prestratien, His condition is #aid to be:serious, Hatch Is a Civil war veleran An Impersonator { he had prepared the outiine of tha con- ‘J?Yug 3, 1913 ___PRICE_TW0_CENTS | 0f Congressmen “DAVID LAMAR” ADMITS THAT HE ¥ IS THE MAN. TO HELP LAUTERBACH Admits That “Lamar” is Not His Real Name and 'Refuses to Disclose It— Enjoys Excitement He Has Caused. Washington, July 2.—A story of mis- representation, impersonation of public men and organized efforts to influence ‘Wall street financiers, probably withs parallel in the history of congressional investigation, was unfolded today be- fore the senate-lobby committee. A prosperous looking, self-possessed individual calling himself David Lamar of New York, self-described as an “op- erator in stocks,” and admittedly the bearer of several assumed names, was the principal in the remarkable session. With entire abandon, arousing the committee to laughter at times by his naive admissions, he told of his imper- sonations, his participation in attempts to influence Wall street operations, and his association with Edward Lauter- bach, a New York lawyer, in efforts to have Lauterbach retained by the Mor- gan firm, the Union Pacific and other great interests to head off congression- al activity in Washington. Assumed Various Names. He telephoned to financial men and lawyers in the names of Representative Palmer and Representative Riodan. He assumed the guise of Chairman Mc- Combs of the national democratic com- mittee to telephone to Chairman Hilles of the rqepublican national committee, Lewis Cass Ledyard of Ncw York, counsel for the Morgan firm, was one of his attempted victims, Mr, Ledyard came to the witness stand today armed ! with a verbatim account of all the con- versations held with Lamar, who had represented himself as Congressman Palmer. As he read the record of the conver- sations, .in themselves unusual in their tone, Lamar, sitting nearby, laughed and nodded, saying ‘“That’s right!” and slapping his leg with apparent enjoy- ment. To Aid His Friend, Lauterbach. The purpose of his Impersonations, Lamar contended, was to secure rein- statement for his friend, Edward Lau- terbach, in the geod graeces of the Mor- gan firm, Members of the commities tonight demanded that Lamar remain in Wash- ington for reappearance tomorrow, Ed- ward Lauterbach, whe recently testi- fied before the committee, was recailed from New York by telegraph tonight, and Henry B. Martin, a local man who has figured as head of the “Anti-Trust league,” was also subpoenaed to ap- pear. Lamar declared he prepared the res- olution for the Stanley investogation of the steel trust; that it was given to Martin, who gave it to Congressman Stanley. Subsequently, he said, it was introduced in the house of representa- tives by Mr. Stanley with but a few “technical changes” from its original form. No Attempt to Exiort Money. Lamar denied that there had been | any attempt at extorting money from any of the New York financial men. The story evolved during the day, mainly through the Ledyard testimony, ind#cated that the latter had been to various members of i‘he Morgan firm to tell them of the “Steel trust” inves- tigation resolution which Lamar had prepared, but that none of the Morgan firm members wouid pay any attention to the matter or make any effort to stop it Lamar paved the way for Lauterbach to call upon Ledvard, according to the testimony given by Ledyard and cor- roborated by Lamar. In an interview February 8, 1913, between Ledyard and Lauterbach, the latter declared he came direct from Senator Stone, who | represented Speaker (lark, and that he had a proposal to make to the Morgan interests for the heading off. of con- gressional activity against the steel corporation. Senator Stone’s Vehement Denial. Senator Stone took the stand before : Condensed-’l'eiag‘rams Letty Garner, a Former Slave, died at Harrisburg, Pa., aged 106 years. Princess Louise of Battenburg was ;gqfisgtully operated upon ‘for appen- icitis, It Cost $0.436 a Day to feed an American sailor this year, against $0.38 last year. The Apple Crop This Year will prob- ably be larger in Connecticut than the 1912 yield, which’ was small. William Doyle, 30 Years Old, died at Wilmington, Del, four days after tak- ing a dose of bichloride of mercury. | Because of Their Failure to secure accommodations, 200 Civil war veterang left Gettysburg and returned to Pitts- burgh. A Pullman Parlor Car was destroved by fire in the Central railroad of New Jersey’s terminal at Communipaw. Loss, $8,000. 2 Bishop John Janssen, of the Roman Catholic diocese of Belleville, Ills.. died at the episcopal residence in Belle- ville yesterday. : ] The Minneapolis Traction Railways | have increased the wages of their mo- tormen and conductors, fixing the min- imum wage at $2 a day. Andrea ' Manco Was Electrocuted yesterday in Sing Sing prison for the murder of Philo Carpanillo in Middle- town, N. Y. in September, 1912. The Hearing for Dr. Tonks, of West- brook, arrested on the charge of per- forming an operatiow not. permitted )i)i law, has been continued until July The Strawberry Crop in Connect- icut this summer has been very light. Some localities have produced a good yield, but in mest places the yleld has beeh small. Secretary Daniels Granted permis- sion to a woman in Kittery, Me, to drive her cow across the Portsmouth navy yard to her summer home once a year. William Haldane. An Accountant in the New York city -department of finance, died in an ante-room of his office yesterday after complaining of the heat, For Efficiency in Rounding Up of the thieves who robbed their stores, the United Cigar Stores Co. of New York, conirfbuted 31,000 toward the police pension fund. Damage Estimated at Almost a mil- lion doliars was done to crops in Hunt county, Texas, by a flood caused by rain over this section Tuesday night and early yesterday. William Frederick Misk, 8 years old, was killed at Bloomfleld yesterday by an automobile owned and driven by Rev. Dr. William T. Wilcox, pastor of l;:n ‘Westminster Presbyterlan church there. John L. Hermance, of Wellsville, N. Y., a veteran of the 67th New York infantry, fell from a Northern Central train near Canton, Pa. and was killed. Hermance was returning from Gettys- burg. Gordon Dickinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Di inson of Harwinton, fell into Lo pond and was drowned while playing at the water's edge with 6-year-old George Maynard. President Wilson Started Back to Washington on the yacht Mayflower yesterday afternoon at 4 p. m., expect- ing to be at the White House befora noon today, after his 72 hour res{ cruise in Chesapeake bay. the 8-Year-Old Charles Greene Lockwood, a pro- fessor emeritus of mathematics of Princeton university, died at his home at Caldwell, N. J., yesterd, He was born in New York in 1843 and was graduated from Yale university with the class of 1864 In an Effort to End the prolonged ice strike which has caused so much suffering in Cincinnati Mayor Hunt took drastic action last night by s ing seven of the large non-union ice- | making plants, and will operate them on behalf of the city. The Jury in the Trial of Elizabeth Ledyard had finished and denounced the whole thing as a “malicious fabri- cation” and a “common lie.” Members of the senate commiteee agreed in the balief that it was a fabrication, ani Lamar clinched the matter by breakng in and admitting there was no truth in the allegations. He admitted that ditiens that should be submitted to the steei corporation attorney, but he could give no explanation a7 his purposs ex- cept that the whole thing was a farce. The story of how Ledvard had kept Lamar on the telephona time after time until he could locate the real Con- gressman Palmer in Washington; how he had once sucgeeeded in getting Pa mer over the long distance telepehona when the bogus “Palnter” was on an- other telephone, and how he had final- 1y traced the impersenator to a tele phone in Lamar's apartment on RIv. side drive, held committee and spectators almost dinmfounded for more than an hour. Called Lamar “a Liar.” Paul D. Cravath, one of the attor- neys for the Union Pacific,and Maxweil Evarts, counsel for the Southern Pa- cific, testified briefly as to their experi- ences with the telephone impersonatcr. | During his testimony early in the day | Lamar interjected an attack upon tae | Union Pacific, claiming there had been | @ falsification in the books of the com- | pany in 1909 by which nearly $80,000 had disappeared from s surplus. Mr, Cravath immediately denied this, terming Lamar a “liar,” a character- ization which the committee insisted shou}d be withdrawn. Cravath declar- ed the attack had been expected for several days as a part of a bear raid fo depress the value of the stock for speculative purposes. Declined to Give Real Name. ‘While Lamar was on the stand Chair- man Overman cndeavored to make him give his real name, but the witness re- fused. He admitted under Overman's questioning that he had been in Pen- ver under the name of David H. Lewis, but denied he had used the nmame of Simon Wolfe. Ile said Lamar was not his name, buf declined to give the committee further infcrmation. Steamship Arrival Triests, July I1.—Arrtved: Steamer Saxonla, New York, Tiverpool, July 1.—Arrived: Steam- er Megantic, Montreal, Fishguerd, July 3.—Arrived: Steam- er Lacenia, Boston. Gurley Flvnn, the Tndustrial Workers of the World leader, charged with in- citing riot among the striking silk mil! workers at Paterson, N. J., had failed to reach a verdict at 10 o'clock last night and was locked up for the night. Benjamin L. McKinley, acting United Stales attorney at San Francisco, pending sematorial confirmation of | President Wilson's nomination of Thomas F. Havden tn succeed John L. MeNab, resigned. followed the action of his chief yesterday by tendering his resignation. New York's $100,000 Gem Mystery that has puzzled the police and private detectives for four days was cleared up vesterday with the arrest of William Beck, a 19 year old clerk, who con- fessed that he executed the looting of a jewel case in the Fifth avenue store of Udall & Ballou last Friday. PLEW CORROBORATES MRS. WAKEFIELD'S STORY. | The Couple Lodged in “Murderers’ | Row” at Jail at New Haven. iy | New Haven, Conn., July 2.—James Plew of Middlebury, who with Mrs. Bessie Wakefield are under arrest forl the murder of Willlam Wakefield, was examined for several hours today by Coroner Mix, and it is understood that the story he told corresponds to that told by Mrs. Wakefield. Nothing to materfally change the alleged confes sion of Mrs. Wakefleld was brought out, it was sald. Both Mrs. Wakefield and Plew, who 1 Istip district, Bravery Shown n -En!g‘i@ Room HEROIC EFFORTS ON BATTLESMIP “"LOUISIANA. IN SIX FEET OF WATER Officers and Men Fight Inrush of Sea Through Opening Caused by Dis- placement of a Vaive Bonnet. Newport, R. I July 2—The brav- ery of the engine room crew of the battleship Louisiana helped the vessel out of a dangerous predicament today when a valve bonnet flew off flooding the starboard engine room with water. Incidentally, the accident gave Cap- tatin Templin M. Potts, who was yes- terday dismissed by the naval *“pluck- ing” hoarq and who retires tomorrow, a4 memorable experience:at the close of his long years of serwice. Worked in Six Feet of Water. . The battleship was in Narragansett bay overhauling her engines. The rush of the sea through the passage by the displacement of the honnet could not be readily stopped, although Chief Engineer Frank W. Sterling and officers and men of the engine room force hed to the scene. Swirling waters carried men off their feet, forced them against the ma. chinery, threatened to drown. them: but they stuck to their work. At times the sea in the engine room rose to a height of six feet, but stili offi- cers' and men worked on, now swim- ming a few strokes, now grasping.a bar or wheel overhead. Pumps had been started, but the water continued to pour in in greater volume than could be disposed of. Attempt to Stuff Up Hole. As soon as Captain Potts was ne- tified of the accident he also hastened to the room. He found officers and men stripped to their waists fighting without success up to that time to master the invading waters. Chief Sterling expressed some fear ag to the chances of gaining eariy contrel, and Captain Potts then rushed to the bridge and sounded the call for col- lision drill, bringing every man aboard ship to quarters and awtomatically closing the bulkhead doors: A collision mat was put overboard, mattresses were hauled from bunks and blankets from hammacks for use against the inrush of water and waste in large guantities was jammed into the hole, but all to'no avail. The sea forced itself through after each . at- tempt, often knocking down the men In the engine room. Hole Stopped with Waste Can. The pumps had succeeded by this time in ridding the room of some of the water and swimming was no long- er necessary. Soon the pumps were disposing of more water than was en- tering, angq then the battling emgine room force was able to cram into the hole a waste can, heavily packed. This was jacked securely and the threaten- ing water wag pped. ) Some of the ergine room force, offi- cers and men, were bruised by con- tact with the machinery, and were al- most overcome by their exertions. Chief Engineer Sterling had the as- sistance of Ensign J. D. Smith, Ensign John F¥. Wellbrook, Chief Warrant Machinist W. J. Clancy, Warrant Ma- chinist H. A. Lowell and several chief Detty officers of the engineers’ depart. ment. Was Not Under Steam. Meanwhile Captain Potts on the bridge had been making certain that the lives of his officers were protect- ed. He ordered wireless messages sent to Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger then aboard his flagship Wyoming a mile and a half away, and sent mes- sages also to the naval tugs Sonoms and Ontario, to come side. When the accident occurred the bat- tleship was without steam, only one boiler being In use for minor pur- poses while the engines were being overhauled. to be called As'a result the tugs had upon to tow the Louis- fana. They convoyed her, under Cap- tain Potts’ direction, to a position a mile away well in shore, just off Tay- lor's Point in Jamestown. So close was the battleship to the beach that it was reported on shore that she had actually been run upon the sand. As a matter of fact, she haq at least 16 feet of water under her at all times, The Damage Repaired. Anchored safely with a broad, shelx- ing beach to run omnto If necessary, measures were taken permanently to repair the damage. A diver was sent overboard and piaced s new bonnet on the auxiliary owverboard discharge valve, through which the water hed rushed, the engines were started, and the battleship steamed back to her station without help. BLOODIEST FIGHTING OF ALL BALKAN WARS, Bulgarians Completely Routed—Heavy Losses on Both Sides. Belgrade, July 2.—Army headquar- ters report that the Servians, after capturing Istip, pursued the enemy, capturing over 100 officers. and 1,000 men. Press despatches report that sanguinary fighting has occurred at Ovtchepolye, where the Bulgarian losses were enormous and 4,000 Bul- garians surrendered. In this engage- ment 2,000 Servians were killed and wounded. According to the best information to be obtained at the Servian capital, the battle line extended from Kotchana, Istip and Strumitza towards Guevghe- li, and thence onwards to the Guilf of | Orfani. Unconfirmed despatches tonight re- port further heavy fighting in the in which the Servians were compelled to abandon their forti- fied positions at the town of Istip and leave behind their wounded. / Fifty-four officers, including foar are lodged in “murderers’ row” at the county jail, still maintain their out- ward calm demeanor, WOMAN ACCUSED OF POISONING NIECE The Victim Carried An Insurance Pol- icy for $2,000. ew Haven, Conn, JFuly 2.—There were no developments tonight, the po- lice sald, in connection with the arrest today of Mrs. Annle F. Monahan of this ecity, on susplcion of having pois- oned her niece, Jennle McNames, aged 17. The latter had an insurance pol- foy of $2,000. Mrs. Monahan main- tains that she is innocent of the crime with which she is charged, but other- wise refuses to discuss the case, ~“Tank Steamer Afire, Naples, June 98.—Arrived: Steamers New Yerk, July 3—The M n Line Lasle, New York; 30th, Sant’ Ana,|steamer Comus, New Yeork for New New York. Orleans sent a wireless message early Havre, July 2--Arrived: Steamer |this evening reperting the tank steam- Niagara, New York. # : er Sieux on fire off Barmegat. The C'herbeurg, July 2.—Arrived: Steam- ! fire was under eentrol when a later er: r. New York - I despatch waa sent. i the front the Bulgarians colonels, were among the killed, while the losses on both sides numbered sev- eral thousand. Although the war has now raged for 60 hours, the Bulgarian minister and his staff are still here. Telephonic - communication between Belgrade and Sofia has ceaged. According to the latest advices from have been entirely driven off the territory which they occupled when took the Ser- vians unawares, The garian right wing has been completely routed. It is asserted that the fighting was the bloodiest in the history of Balkan WarS, Sergeant Duffy Found Guilty. this marning. James J. Ma 67 Years of ags, well Kmown it the a8 ™ : )